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作者：Fernandez-Mateo, Isabel; King, Zella
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; University of Reading
摘要：We examine the roots of gender segregation in the screening process by using a longitudinal data set of candidates considered for temporary projects at a staffing firm and following their progress through the hiring pipeline. Theories invoked to explain gender segregation across jobs traditionally rely on firm-specific human capital and expectations of future commitment to explain this phenomenon. These do not apply in this setting. Yet we find that the staffing firm is more likely to shortlis...
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作者：August, Terrence; Tunca, Tunay I.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Stanford University
摘要：In recent years, vendor liability for software security vulnerabilities has been the center of an important debate in the software community and a topic gaining government attention in legislative committees and hearings. The importance of this question surrounding vendor security liability is amplified when one considers the increasing emergence of zero-day attacks where hackers take advantage of vulnerabilities before the software vendor has a chance to release protective patches. In this pa...
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作者：Xue, Mei; Hitt, Lorin M.; Chen, Pei-yu
作者单位：Boston College; University of Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：This paper examines the drivers of adoption of Internet banking and the linkages among adoption drivers and outcomes (product acquisition, service activity, profitability, loyalty). We relate Internet banking adoption to customer demand for banking services, the availability of alternative channels, customers' efficiency in service coproduction (customer efficiency), and local Internet banking penetration. We find that customers who have greater transaction demand and higher efficiency, and re...
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作者：Kornish, Laura J.; Ulrich, Karl T.
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：A common approach to innovation, parallel search, is to identify a large number of opportunities and then to select a subset for further development, with just a few coming to fruition. One potential weakness with parallel search is that it permits repetition. The same, or a similar, idea might be generated multiple times, because parallel exploration processes typically operate without information about the ideas that have already been identified. In this paper we analyze repetition in five d...
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作者：Blanes i Vidal, Jordi; Nossol, Mareike
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：W e use a quasi-experimental research design to study the effect of giving workers feedback on their relative performance. The setting is a firm in which workers are paid piece rates and where, for exogenous reasons, management begins to reveal to workers their relative position in the distribution of pay and productivity. We find that merely providing this information leads to a large and long-lasting increase in productivity that is costless to the firm. Our findings are consistent with the ...
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作者：Cason, Timothy N.; Kannan, Karthik N.; Siebert, Ralph
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Theoretical models of information asymmetry have identified a trade-off between the desire to learn and the desire to prevent an opponent from learning private information. This paper reports a laboratory experiment that investigates if actual bidders account for this trade-off, using a sequential procurement auction with private cost information and varying information revelation policies. Specifically, the Complete Information Revelation Policy, where all submitted bids are revealed between ...
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作者：Swinney, Robert
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：W e address the value of quick response production practices when selling to a forward-looking consumer population with uncertain, heterogeneous valuations for a product. Consumers have the option of purchasing the product early, before its value has been learned, or delaying the purchase decision until a time at which valuation uncertainty has been resolved. Whereas individual consumer valuations are uncertain ex ante, the market size is uncertain to the firm. The firm may either commit to a ...
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作者：Koek, A. Guerhan; Xu, Yi
作者单位：Duke University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This paper studies assortment planning and pricing for a product category with heterogeneous product types from two brands. We model consumer choice using the nested multinomial logit framework with two different hierarchical structures: a brand-primary model in which consumers choose a brand first, then a product type in the chosen brand, and a type-primary model in which consumers choose a product type first, then a brand within that product type. We consider a centralized regime that finds ...
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作者：Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hu, Yu (Jeffrey); Simester, Duncan
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：Many markets have historically been dominated by a small number of best-selling products. The Pareto principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, describes this common pattern of sales concentration. However, information technology in general and Internet markets in particular have the potential to substantially increase the collective share of niche products, thereby creating a longer tail in the distribution of sales. This paper investigates the Internet's long tail phenomenon. By analyzing data...
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作者：Muller, Karl A., III; Riedl, Edward J.; Sellhorn, Thorsten
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Harvard University; WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
摘要：We examine the effects of mandating the provision of fair value information for long-lived tangible assets on firms' information asymmetry. Specifically, we investigate whether European real estate firms' compulsory adoption of International Accounting Standard 40 (IAS 40; Investment Property), which mandated the provision of investment property fair values in 2005, resulted in reduced information asymmetry across market participants. Using as a control group firms that voluntarily provided th...
